(b) "Chief" means the Director of the Division of Water and
Waste Management of the Department of Environmental Protection, or
his or her designee.

(c) "Director" means the Director of the Division of Forestry
of the Department of Commerce or his or her designee.

(d) "Operator" means any person who conducts timbering
operations.

(e) "Timbering operation," or the plural, means activities
directly related to the severing or removal of standing trees from
the forest as a raw material for commercial processes or purposes.
For the purpose of this article, timbering operations do not include
the severing of evergreens grown for and severed for the traditional
Christmas holiday season; the severing of trees incidental to
ground-disturbing construction activities, including well sites,
access roads and gathering lines for oil and natural gas operations;
the severing of trees for maintaining existing, or during
construction of, rights-of-way for public highways or public
utilities or any company subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission unless the trees so severed are being
sold or provided as raw material for commercial wood product purposes; or the severing of trees by an individual on the
individual's own property for his or her individual use provided
that the individual does not have the severing done by a person
whose business is the severing or removal of trees.

(f) "Sediment" means solid particulate matter, usually soil or
minute rock fragments, moved by wind, rainfall or snowmelt into the
streams of the state.

Note: WV Code updated with legislation passed through the 2016 Regular Session
The West Virginia Code Online is an unofficial copy of the annotated WV Code, provided as a convenience. It has NOT been edited for publication, and is not in any way official or authoritative.